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Letter from the Editor: Four years in the books

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Dec. 4, 2010   Leave a Comment  

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My god. Have we really been at this for four years already? It seems like just yesterday I was watching the countdown clock on our original domain name, theblastarea.com as we prepared to edit and put out our first magazine issue on 1/1/2007. A lot has changed in that time. Not only has the magazine [...]

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Letter from the editor: So how bad WAS IX Web Hosting?

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Aug. 1, 2008   7 Comments  

Let me first apologize. For about a year now, we’ve been using IX Web Hosting as an inexpensive solution to our very simple web hosting needs — three domains powered by WordPress. After all, we don’t have any key sponsors, and I fund Blast with my own money when it isn’t making its own cash. [...]

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Letter from the Editor

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March 1, 2007   Leave a Comment  

Massachusetts may finally have a chance passing a journalism shield law. California and 29 other states already have one, but that hasn’t helped Josh Wolf, a video-blogging convergence journalist who videoed an anti-G8 demonstration in 2005 and has been jailed under federal regulations for refusing to turn over footage to the police. It is clear [...]

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